"Rule"? I play pool, and where I come from, even those are "suggestions of physics". Ranting about things that aren't final reminds me of the Fonz water-skiing...
Andrew On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Leslie Satenstein <[email protected]> wrote: > My goodness, have you never heard of the 80% / 20% rule, also known as the > Pareto law? That law states that the system will be 80% complete for > delivery day, but the other 20% will take ever so much more time to make > working properly. > > On 2011-03-27 10:03 AM, Andrew Oulton wrote: > > Well it is still a month away from being released so there is little reason > to expect it to be stable. If you feel like you're just a guinea pig, it's > because YOU ARE :) > > Andrew > > On 2011-03-27 9:32 AM, "Peter Silva" <[email protected]> wrote: >> <rant> >> I speak as an ubuntu fan, with a house full of ubuntu's, and long >> experience. natty not just slightly painful. It is seriously unusably bad >> regressions awful... on 10.10, I was used to not having suspend/resume, to >> having to stop looking at video to keep the graphics chip from overheating >> (triggering a shutdown) but 11.04 is far, far worse. the trackpad (this >> might be hardware) doesn't work, there isn't anywhere to set it. The >> wireless no longer works (not a driver issue, I start up wpa_supplicant & >> dhclient by hand and it's fine about half the time, the rest of the time, >> it >> refuses to associate. I rmmod ath9k, then modprobe it again, and then I >> can >> get bandwidth back. I just leave it alone for a few hours, it is always >> crashed/hung... I suspect it's the open source X drivers not dealing well >> with GL screen savers, because it doesn't crash much when I stay in front >> of >> it. I will refrain from talking about Unity beyond saying it is clearly >> not >> ready in a thousand ways, I switched to xfce to get away, which was less >> foreign, but all the hardware issues remain. (tests done mostly with >> alpha3) losing all the knobs to adjust things, it is just a really big >> step >> backwards. I worry that in trying to make Unity, which should be a big >> step forwards, people are forgetting just how many little details went >> into >> making ubuntu/gnome actually work. I was a kubuntu user for years but had >> recently switched to the gnome stream because of all the little things >> that >> didn't work. The unity people have years of work to do before we get to >> usability parity with the classic desktop. It's just so unspeakably bad >> that I don't even have the courage to submit a bug report, it isn't even >> close to being usable, it just feels like a complete waste of time. >> Seriously, Canonical cannot be serious about this. It isn't going to work. >> </rant> >> >> I feel better now... > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
